Comment by kyriakos

14 days ago

If nobody cared about windows there wouldn't be any posts like this one everyday on HN. The problem is people do care and need to use windows which makes all these stupidity by Microsoft the recent years frustrating.

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jmward01  14 days ago

I am personally just a lurker. Windows used to be my only OS for a -very- long time (DOS 2.x, yes 2, was my first MS OS). Now I click on these just to see how far it has fallen. It is like that friend you drifted away from and now you look at their FB posts now and again to watch as they get crazier and crazier.

saghm  14 days ago

I think the point is that they don't care about Windows in particular as much as the my care about having something that works out of the box for them, and for years that was Windows. Not many people really want Windows to iterate with new features, and in practice it seems that they aren't really able to push those features without breaking the stability, which is the one feature people do actually want, and that leads to backlash like this. The best Windows is the one that gets out of the way and lets users not care about it.

einr  14 days ago

It's more like "nobody cares about Windows" as in: no one is impressed that you added Copilot into Notepad, no one wants you to move the cheese, they just want to get on with their actual work without being interrupted by "good things coming your way" which is inevitably just more annoyance, more bugs, more Copilot buttons.

Most people would probably have preferred if Windows had zero feature updates* since Windows 7, just security patches.

* Well, OK, fine. Task Manager is better now, I'll grant them that one.

charlieyu1  14 days ago

We need something that just works. I guess Microsoft made me care because their products are unpredictable.

expedition32  14 days ago

I am not going to defend MS but I have to say that the frustration is less than it was in the 90s.

Reinstalling Windows used to take an entire afternoon. Now I can do it in an hour.

Basically Windows and computers in general have always been frustrating.

  • dessimus  14 days ago

    I'm not certain what point you are attempting to make, The size of Windows install has not smaller and therefore improving install time, but rather the hardware has gotten so much faster. Installing from a USB 3 key is so much faster than floppy or optical media, as well as NVMe drives are receiving the data vs old spinning rust drives.

    • expedition32  14 days ago

      Ah my point is that Widows hasn't gotten worse. You can probably still find old forum posts complaining about Vista...

      It was always bad. It is now easier to fix it. We are making progress lol.

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  • netsharc  14 days ago

    That's a ridiculous comparison...

    If for example you take a bus to work, and starting this month, the bus shows up only every hour (last year it was every 10 minutes), would you be frustrated?

    But if you complained about this and someone said "Well in the 90's this bus showed up only every 4 hours!"...